It depends on how much of a hardline conservative you are.
Especially when you talk about police states being imposed. You have to remember there is an army of online morons (on both sides) asking for even harder measures. Mass arrests and all that good stuff.
Far left and far right are in the same ballpark when you are talking about policing in the extreme.
An example would be the reporter asking Trump why arent ALL shops closed. Some hardline conservatives would be for that.
Far right would be anarchists who want 0 government but the average American doesn’t actually understand the political spectrum. Someone actually on the Far Right would want 0 policing and 0 government.
Left/Right in the US is not the same as it is for Euros, and the idea that WWII Germany's version of Socialism is somehow on the Right is just a lie created from communists that have taken over our higher education institutions. This short video is excellent at explaining what I mean:
I doubt that 35% of republicans are anarchists.There's an aspect of fear in this whole thing. Even Republicans are buying into the fear mongering to the point that they're willing to buy into a "temporary" police state.
It’s not about Republicans/Democrats. The notion is that the far right of the political spectrum is anarchy. The far left is totalitarianism. All you did is prove my point by conflating the too. Just another failing of our education system. If I didn’t take AP US history and took gen pop US history in HS I wouldn’t have gotten this lesson. Hell, I even majored in Poli Sci in college and didn’t get this lesson. Think about that, in K-Bachelor’s Degree schooling I had one teacher, in an advanced placement course, who was able to convey this point. No wonder the average American doesn’t understand it.
The textbook definition of the political spectrum has anarchy on the right and totalitarianism on the left. One group bastardizing the term does not change the meaning.
Wrong again. Even in a square, theocracy is to the left.
Squares have left and right sides. Total control is to the left. Total freedom is to the right.
And the square, I would posit, actually doesn't make sense. It merges two different topics and tries to put them on the same graph. When in reality 2 separated but parallel lines would make more sense. Add a line for every new subject.
Especially when you talk about police states being imposed. You have to remember there is an army of online morons (on both sides) asking for even harder measures. Mass arrests and all that good stuff.
I honestly think this right here has become the dividing line in the USA (and to a lesser extent, the rest of the developed world):
One group believes we need to cede all our freedoms and responsibilities so big daddy government can come in and save us from ourselves, while the other group believes we the people are the ones who are ultimately responsible for ourselves and our society at large.
The second tenet of Meliorism is a belief in the natural goodness of man, corrupted by society. This emanates from the work and thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau transferred the struggle for good and evil from within the breast of the individual to society. Evil comes from society, and therefore, by fixing society — tinkering with society's traditions, customs, language, laws, and norms — we can eradicate evil. This social engineering will restore the natural goodness and natural equity of the world initially corrupted by society.
The conservative's counter-argument to these tenets and to Meliorism in general is what I've called "The Tragic Nature" of the human condition. The rebuttal to the first premise is that human nature is constant and not progressing. We, in the present, are not at all different — neither better nor worse — from our eldest ancestors. To the conservative, as Russell Kirk once explained, "real progress consists in the movement of mankind towards the understanding of norms, and towards conformity to norms."1
The norms of yesteryear are as applicable today as they were when first established by our ancestors. The farther we "progress" away from them, the worse our lives and civilizations become.
In other news, 35% of GOP voters are blind, deaf and dumb.
HOW IS THIS NOT 100%?
It depends on how much of a hardline conservative you are.
Especially when you talk about police states being imposed. You have to remember there is an army of online morons (on both sides) asking for even harder measures. Mass arrests and all that good stuff.
Far left and far right are in the same ballpark when you are talking about policing in the extreme.
An example would be the reporter asking Trump why arent ALL shops closed. Some hardline conservatives would be for that.
Far right would be anarchists who want 0 government but the average American doesn’t actually understand the political spectrum. Someone actually on the Far Right would want 0 policing and 0 government.
It's a lost cause. They words have been redefined so much even the pedes here rarely understand this anymore.
Yup. The true political spectrum is Anarchism on the far right, and Totalitarianism on the far left.
"Conservative" & "liberal" are meaningless- used to control thinking.
This exactly.
Left/Right in the US is not the same as it is for Euros, and the idea that WWII Germany's version of Socialism is somehow on the Right is just a lie created from communists that have taken over our higher education institutions. This short video is excellent at explaining what I mean:
https://youtu.be/rj0zBMq1EaE?t=30
That's what people miss. "Far Right" in American politics is zero government. The people begging to be policed have a foot on each side.
I doubt that 35% of republicans are anarchists.There's an aspect of fear in this whole thing. Even Republicans are buying into the fear mongering to the point that they're willing to buy into a "temporary" police state.
It’s not about Republicans/Democrats. The notion is that the far right of the political spectrum is anarchy. The far left is totalitarianism. All you did is prove my point by conflating the too. Just another failing of our education system. If I didn’t take AP US history and took gen pop US history in HS I wouldn’t have gotten this lesson. Hell, I even majored in Poli Sci in college and didn’t get this lesson. Think about that, in K-Bachelor’s Degree schooling I had one teacher, in an advanced placement course, who was able to convey this point. No wonder the average American doesn’t understand it.
There are many republicans that are happy making more on unemployment than working. They are all for the hysteria if it means another week off.
Like ANTIFA? Nope! Sorry, Anarchy IS NOT a Far-Right position. Alllllllllllllllllllll Leftists!
in fact, the only people who make that argument are Leftist shills trying to make 2nd Amendment supporters into extremists.
...so why are you saying it?
The textbook definition of the political spectrum has anarchy on the right and totalitarianism on the left. One group bastardizing the term does not change the meaning.
You got that exactly wrong there my dude.
Far right is nothing like far left.
Left is total control. Right is total freedom.
We operate by sliding between the two.
Far right would be theocracy. The square model makes more sense than the line. The line can only take into account either social or fiscal, not both.
How do you even begin to postulate that a theocracy would be a right side ideology?
Wrong again. Even in a square, theocracy is to the left.
Squares have left and right sides. Total control is to the left. Total freedom is to the right.
And the square, I would posit, actually doesn't make sense. It merges two different topics and tries to put them on the same graph. When in reality 2 separated but parallel lines would make more sense. Add a line for every new subject.
I honestly think this right here has become the dividing line in the USA (and to a lesser extent, the rest of the developed world):
One group believes we need to cede all our freedoms and responsibilities so big daddy government can come in and save us from ourselves, while the other group believes we the people are the ones who are ultimately responsible for ourselves and our society at large.
Here's an enlightening article about it: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/the-bad-roots-of-progressivism-make-for-a-poisonous-tree
Theyve been very successful creating hysteria over something that probably 30-50% of the population have not even known they had.
Mass arrests. That would work really well when they are releasing criminals because jails are sites for covid. The Cali excuse among other places.
35% haven't seen a single press briefing.